Distributed Computing
Environments

Course Description:

Building a distributed application or infrastructure
is tough. Many problems arise including security, communications,
reliability, availability, serviceability, scalability and
heterogeneity. OSF's Distributed Computing Environment helps solve
many of these problems.

Many organizations have distributed computing infrastructures
where a large number of computers are connected together by a
network. Powerful workstations are located in the offices of the
employees serviced by even large capacity servers. Applications take
advantage of the farm of computers by splitting the apparition into
client/server partitions where the graphical user interface resides
on the workstation and the application rules and databases reside on
the servers. These applications can communicate with each other and
share information.

The Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) is a software
component provided by the Open Systems Foundations (OSF) and
supporting companies. Together, they have built solutions to the
distributed application problems. The class covers the DCE and how it
solves problems.